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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Nashville, TN

June 27, 2001Smith County, Tennessee

NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2001, 5:48 PM CDT for Smith County, Tennessee. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 2001, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Nashville, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Smith County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1028 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KOHX 272249
TORBNA

TNC159-272315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
548 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SMITH COUNTY IN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
STORM WITH ROTATION OVER GORDONSVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF 
CARTHAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH RURAL EASTERN SMITH COUNTY.

A TORNADO COULD FORM AT ANY TIME - TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES AND SEEK SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AWOID WINDOWS!
$$
MAR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 12:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	White	119 min
Jun 27, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	28 min
Jun 27, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	25 min
Jun 27, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Humphreys	51 min
Jun 27, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Stewart	38 min
Jun 27, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	29 min
Jun 27, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	27 min
Jun 27, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	30 min
Jun 27, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Davidson	35 min
Jun 27, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	29 min
Jun 27, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham	23 min
Jun 27, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson	32 min
Jun 27, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Putnam, Smith	36 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.